This Trash Fire Is Lit

Trash Fires Are Hard To Put Out And Other Facts, Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About How ISIS Uses The Internet, Open An App, Transform A Space With 10 Dynamic Light Scenes, Meet The Ungers, Learning From The Lazarus Effect, Who's Actually In The Middle Class In America The Daily Digg Friday, May 13, 2016 WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Trash Fires Are Hard To Put Out And Other Facts digg.com Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: undying garbage infernos, terrible website design and a deadly babbling brook. CAREFUL WHO YOU SUBTWEET Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About How ISIS Uses The Internet buzzfeed.com They talk on Telegram and send viruses to their enemies. BuzzFeed News' Sheera Frenkel looks at how ISIS members and sympathizers around the world use the internet to grow their global network. GADGETS WE DIGG SPONSORED Open An App, Transform A Space With 10 Dynamic Light Scenes elgato.com This LED lamp is portable, water resistant, lets you transform any space (indoor AND outdoor) from your smartphone and lasts more than eight hours on a single charge. SECOND CHANCES Meet The Ungers highline.huffingtonpost.com A few years back, one of the most notorious escape artists of our time discovered an ingenious (and legal) way to get 230 convicted murderers, rapists and robbers released from their life sentences early. It was an unimagined second chance for them — and a nerve-wracking experiment for everyone else. THE LUCKY ONES Learning From The Lazarus Effect nytimes.com Most clinical trials for cancer drugs are failures. But for a handful of patients, a drug roves to be nearly a cure. What can science learn from these "exceptional responders"? CLASSTOGRAPHY Who's Actually In The Middle Class In America pewsocialtrends.org The middle class is an oft-mentioned group, but who actually falls in and out of it, and where do they live? Get more stories on Digg.com TO THINE OWN SELF BEE TRUE In this photo taken Monday, April 18, 2016, beekeeper Spencer Marshall checks a number of hives on a garden deck outside the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. At least seven San Francisco hotels have built rooftop beehives that produce honey for food, cocktails and spa products. Convention and tourist hotels from Union Square to Fisherman's Wharf say they're doing their small part to combat worldwide honeybee colony collapse.​ Credit: AP Photo/Eric Risberg Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002